[LAU] bitwig announcement

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 01/15/2012 02:05 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>
>> And about the scary part, news like this brings up questions for me. What
>> kind of users will it attract? How many users will switch and drop software
>> like Ardour and Qtractor?
>
> I know I'm not going to make any friends with such a statement, but
> what is the problem with dropping "software like Ardour and Qtractor"?
>
> If you are musician in the first place, then it's a matter of what
> works best for you. If you are geek in the first place, then there's
> no way you will abandon free software, so what's the problem? :)
>

Hello Alexandre,

What if you're a user in the first place? A user that likes to talk 
about his favorite software? A user that likes to exchange experiences, 
to help out others and having to find out that becomes more and more 
pointless? It would most certainly help focusing on making music, that 
I'll admit, but what if there's nobody to share it with or only a LAU 
mailinglist with people using either Renoise, Bitwig, Mixbus or EnergyXT 
(<ironic mode />, I'm exaggarating of course)? Linux audio is also a 
community with users and there are quite a few of those users that 
mainly stick around because of that community. It would be a shame if 
such users would abandon the community.

> We are talking about competition which is a natural thing. Rosegarden
> can lose users to MusE or Qtractor. Qtractor can lose users to Ardour.
> It happens all the time. Can you see any of the developers crying,
> because they are all alone? :)
>

I'm not worried about the devs, not in the least. Sometimes it seems 
there are more developpers and applications out there than people who 
actually use those applications and make music with it. That's the scary 
bit, the users.

> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org

Best,

Jeremy